CLOSE to OPENING

Photograph to be seen live at MyrbergBjörn very shortly.

Shot by: Alana Da Silva

MO:

Ready...Steady....GOOOO!

On Monday MyrbergBjörn opens!

Pop by, say hello, take a class, sweat it out, sit down, have a chat and let us know what you think!

Friday-Sunday MyrbergBjörn is hosting its very first MOJO Yoga Certification.

Feels unreal doing the training at your own place. Unreal, but good.

Saw the gorgeous photographs that Alana shot last night. That girl is a genius.

It took her 20 minutes, if even, to nail it right on the head. I had this vision of bubblegum-, bouncy-, vibrant-, cartoon-like colours, with shapes that are in and out of focus....

And I got exactly the flavour I was hoping for.

Thanks to all who stayed and modelled!

YUM!

Morning glory

I love working and moving the first thing in the morning! I am so much sharper, more productive, more focused!!

Glad I have clients who like to do the same :)

Dreamt about al the cool stuff happening in January 2011!!!
Oyoyoy - Nike Blast in Swe, then Oslo and Helsinki :)
Sats will get a new cool Nike class!!!
I'm in London playing with Ana Forrest :))))
AIM education with Les Mills :)
And it will be my birthday :)

Happy Friday gorgeous once ;)

- Jo flowing om The IPhone :)

With a little help from my friends

MO:

Thank you thank you thank you,

JO: for an amazing energy boost this morning - ohhh, how I needed that!

My spirit was ELEVATED after our meeting. As always.

Christine: for so many laughs and such an organized IKEA run with follow up team work at MyrbergBjörn.

Jessica: for boosting SMSs and for creating such fabulous membership cards for the studio.

Camilla: for filling my body with yoga LOVE and fun.

Alana: for your company on the mat and (I´m sure) brilliant photographs.

P: for giving my trapz the treatment and attention that they so desperately needed.

(Even if I did feel like crying and even if I am such a cry baby when it comes to manipulations of the spine.) And for letting me rave on about the underlying cause.

And for yet again helping me find my true core. In more ways than one. ♥

Bedtime bigtime!

Ah do I need Jul lov or what:?!

Yes!

I've managed to stay frisk for a while now even if I've felt it wanting to break my body, but I won't let it!

Today must have been the worst day in a long time, woke up with fever and it just kept going al day.
But - I decided not to give into it and now I actually feel ok!

The highlight of the day was meeting MO for a coffe! And the SMS I just got from mom!!!
Love and miss her so!!

Also my clients of course!!

Now some BB 51 - breath is the focus this time ! Yum!!!




2 morrow is a full on day again with 8 clients, some more BB prep and then an early night since SJ (I hope) is taking me to Halmstad 0620 Saturday mooooorning!

Malmö after that!

Work work work, love, live!!

Sat bam Jo
- Jo flowing om The IPhone :)

A fu*ker of a day

MO:

I had a bit of a morning.

It started off good with a great yoga class at 9am, but then went haywire in the gym shortly after.

I was in a great mood after class, I felt strong, almost invincible. Until I tried my squat that is.

I´ve had some problems with my right shoulder for a couple of weeks. It´s my upper trapezius that´s causing some serious problems when I load a heavy bar on top of it. It feels like putting a flame of fire deep down into wounded flesh.

The pain hit me REAL bad approx. 10 minutes into my session and I felt frustrated, angry and sad.

My trapezius is the one part of my body that ALWAYS stores stress and overload.

I know I´ve balanced a tight rope this autumn but I had it all under control until that deal went sour 2 weeks ago.

(I wish I could tell you exactly what happened, but I´m not going to bring it to that level.

Let´s just say that a major player truly fucked up a mutual contract... )

This caused a serious amount of negative stress and although I´m mentally past it - my body seems to be holding a long lived grudge.

That´s life for you. Take the good with the bad.

ANYWAY, tomorrow, I´m preparing for my last weekend of work for this year - a MOJO Yoga Certification at the MyrbergBjörn studio!!! ...and participating in Camilla Bergström´s 3h yoga workshop at Kåken! Mmmmm....can´t wait! Since I missed playing with Superman last weekend, it´ll be catch up time tomorrow.

Want to join us? Check out www.christinemyrberg.com for more information - there are a few spaces left.

Sleep well, MOJOs!

Thailand Wellness - Indigo Pearl Resort

MO:

Who wants to come with me, Fredrik Sjöberg, Richmond Bachia and Per Markussen to Indigo Pearl Resort in March???

You can read more about the trip here.

Winter Competition

MO:

Competition time -

WIN a free place at The Sportlife Winter Convention on December 12! Read more about the event here.

If you win, you can go to all these cool classes:

SCHEMA:

10.30 BODYPUMP® 76 - Pernilla Andersson & Kristin Andersson
11.30 BODYCOMBAT® 46 - Sarah Galàn
12.30 Kettlebells vs. Yoga - Pontus Wärnestål och Leon Martini
13.30 Full Contact Fitness - Henrik Olsson & Johan Pettersson Strömer
14.30 S-Core 26 - Anna-Maria Tedfeldt, Helena Cato & Karin Liberg
15.30 The Jump-off - Michael Gamble & Susanna Persson
16.30 Powerstrip® - Sandra Merino & Camilla Klemming
17.30 Zumba goes Afro Power Dance - Sara Hänninen & Sofia Heydeck
(Med reservation för ändringar. Observera att det finns 160 kettlebellklot på plats och de fördelas enligt först till kvarn-principen.)

You can enter the Fitness Festival for free and you have a free ticket for the FestivalParty at Estrad, Gothia Towers at 22.00-01.00.

To win, all you have to do, is to send an email to info@incycle.se with your name and your contact details. The first one on the boat is the WINNER! Easy peasy!

Caramel Core

Is one Of The best starts Of The day ever!!!!!
Wish I ha time for the lovely breakfast at Hagabadet after but of teaching clients now!



-10 this morning....
8 clients later and I will be flowing BB51 :) yum!

Plus I got a gift from a student today :)))) yeah I love gifts!

It's a beautiful day friends

Sat nam Jo ;)

- Jo flowing om The IPhone :)

MULTI INTENSO Week

Is now over for this year!
I know it will be back!

Thank you ALL of you amazing people how showed up for the weekend workshop, took the private sessions and the classes.
YOU inspire me :)

It has been an amazing week!

When David first contacted me I was in Djerba and I knew that I had LOADS of work to do in Nov, and that arranging a workshop wasn't part of the plan.
But the I couldn't resist it - letting my fellow yogis taste SUPERMANS practice - a practice that inspires me soo much that I fly al the way to NYC to get some of it.


And thank you SPORTLIFE for being such a COOL gym to let us practice and play there!
I love SPORTLIFE cause they are always fast and on when it comes to doing NEW stuff! That is part of the secret to SUCCESS!

I know that David and Lya enjoyed Gothenburg and that they can't wait to come back - a lot thanks to YOU guys!!!

My 2 SUPERMEN together - doe's it get any better ;)

David is such a humble teacher - he can teach anyone - and sees THE PERSON and helped him/her to pour magic into their postures! I love watching the transformation happen as I got to sit next to him on many of his private sessions!

Thursday night we were invited to the KONSERTHUSET by Karin! WOW!!!

After the concert we got to meet GUSTAVO DUDAMEL himself - he said that he would LOVE to play around with Yoga someday :) To me he is a natural YOGI!

After the concert we went to FAMILJEN and ate ELK :) YUM YUM YUM!!!!



After 5 classes with Superman my body felt like it was opening up from the INSIDE - amazing feeling!

What better way to round up the weekend than with SNOW and Liseberg :)

This week is full of teaching Privates, classes, a new PT session - Exciting!!! Studying the new BB as I am teaching it in Halmstad and Malmö the coming weekend!

And yes - just looked at venues for YOGA GAMES 2011!

Wat do you prefer in June?!

SVENSKA MÄSSAN

or


ERIKSBERG


?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?

Help Us!!!!

SAT NAM JO

Romania

MO:

...the two most gorgeous girls were these hotties!!! Åsa & Beckis from Gotham City gracing a huge wall in the spinning studio (!) with their beauty!

More history...

The Legend: Tonkins Anderson.

Richmond & Dimitri

Parts of the crew with Julio & Salvatore

Veronica - gorgeous girl, gorgeous personality.

PER "Have you heard THIS song?!"Markussen, dear friend and NIKE colleague

Travel companion, longstanding friend and fab PT, Matthew Griffiths and Andrea.

Romanian food - yum!

More Romanian food!

WHEN will we see this at a Swedish Convention??? A fresh juice bar!!!

- Blinged from my iPhone

Surprise

MO:
What a fascinating country!
The people speak VERY good English, are super-friendly and hungry for knowledge.
The architecture is astounding and the old parliament building (the second largest building in the world) completely took my breath away. It's so beautiful yet scary at the same time. To know how many people had to die and suffer for a paranoid dictator to feel safe ( what's built underground is equivalent to 1/3 of the building's total area) is more than disgusting.
Anyway, I'm happy with the day and my 2 classes.
Now: relaxing for a few hours before dinner.
Have a great evening!












The only bank that was allowed before the dictatorship ended.











The parliament

- Blinged from my iPhone

STUCK

MO:
STUCK. Yup.
That's right. In Amsterdam.
Luckily with my dear friend Matthew, although he hasn't seen too much of me for the last hour or so, since I've been cleaning.
No, not the airport, but my inbox.
I need a course in inbox management. I'm good for about 2 weeks and then I get terrible again.
How many emails do you have in your inbox? Just so I can get a grip about what's sort of normal...? I've read all mine and I've answered them all. And they total around...well...many. AND I have folders! Help!

It's a bit like my kitchen table, but that's tidy for about 5 seconds and then I have papers, reciepts, calendars, pens and other necessary stuff all over the place. That WILL change now though, as I get MyrbergBjorn up and going (with my office OUT of the house).

We arrive in Bucharest around midnight and will probably reach the hotel around 1am.
I get picked up at 8am in the morning to teach 2 out of 3 classes during the day.
My job is all but glamourous, that's for sure. Phew.

Those were the days - or - my life as an aerobics groupie

MO:

Packing my bags. Again.

This time I´m off to Romania. Bucharest to be exact.

I´m teaching spinning and a Functional Training class at the World Class Romania Event.

It´ll be a fab weekend I´m sure.

The event is hosted by one of my oldest "fitness" friends, Richmond Bachia.

We´ve known each other since -95.

Also teaching at the event is an even older acquaintance of mine - the man who is solely responsible for me taking my first trembling steps into the fitness industry:

Tonkins Anderson.

He was one of the VERY first American guest instructors to come to Sweden and he was for sure the first to teach dance aerobics in Gothenburg. He stayed here for about 4-5 years.

We´re talking -89ish. Can you imagine? Were you even born in -89???

I was there. 3-4 times per week. I had MY spot (which, by the way, I would KILL for).

And if Tonkins was sick, I would stare with hostility at the sub with a gaze that said: "...sooooo...who are you and what do you think YOU could teach us?" Man, those were the times.

Tonkins used to get incredibly pissed off if someone didn´t get his choreography.

He was famous for saying things like: "Honey, if you don´t know your left from your right, the door is right behind you". And yes, it was not only hearsay.

Lucky for me, I take choreography fairly well, so I managed to stay out of the evil eye for the 3 years that I belonged to the super-groupie-troupe. Wow.

Jez, such a LONG time ago and now we´ll meet again? Weird.

I might even take his class! Why not? For old times sakes.

Hahaha, maybe this time I will be thrown out of the class?

REALITY check

MO:
- snatches
- front squats
- skaters squats
- military presses
- chins

in the gym,
MOJO Yoga before the gym session and 60 min Wednesday spinning tonight - all with 90 minutes of yoga NY style already causing musle twitches all over my body... You could say I'm slightly sore...

AND I´ve got a private with David again tomorrow morning.

Wish me luck.

MyrbergBjörn business card. Wow. It´s happening soon.

Getting my MOJO back

MO:
First of all: a girl who likes her shopping stayed in front of her computer at 8am sharp.
It didn't really fly though, since the H&M virtual shop was crowded to the brim for the rest of the morning/day.
Grrrrr... Good marketing or not, it doesn´t go down well with me when you either have to queue in the cold outside your local H&M for hours, or hit the F5 button about 1.000 times in an hour and still not be able to spend your hard earned cash on the dress you´ve been drooling over.

Imagine my surprise, when I several hours later, visited a H&M shop to buy Robin new socks and found 1 of THE dresses almost in my size!

What a relief, because live it didn´t look anything like in the picture...

This, according to me, is the problem with haute couture designers doing clothes for normal people:

1. The materials are not even close to what they normally work with which makes the items look...well, not that expensive OR well made.

2. The clothes shown in the promotion movies are usually made with the real deal, which increases your expectations immensly.

3. Haute Couture designs are not made to be "compromised".

It happened with the Cavalli-collection, to the Jimmy Choo-collection and very much this time, with the Lanvin-collection. I´d rather buy normal H&M gear any day, actually.

In the evening I spent 90 minutes getting my MOJO back!

An hour and a half with Mr. Multi-Intenso, ass-kicked my joy and playfulness for yoga into shape. Just what the doctor ordered.

Thank you David and thank you JO for setting it up.

Said dress.

Mr. Multi-Intenso.

Christine & JO after class. Shining!

SUPERMAN p(l)ays a visit

MO:

Famous friends.

Darling JOJO & SUPERMAN paid a visit in tonight´s marathon: Spinning, Kettlebell & Hot MOJO.

What an honour to get the enormous pleasure to kick this talented man´s tight butt!

After having spent 90min more or less just WATCHING his awe-inspiring Multi-Intenso class 2 years ago in NY (think 10 handstands before the 30min mark...), I was thrilled to invite David to my triple.

True grandeur equals humbleness, that´s why David is one of the greatest in my opinion.

Tomorrow, he will have his "revenge" as I sweat it out on the yoga mat.

Except from teaching,

JO and I have filmed and bagged the second MOJO Yoga series - and man, does it FLY?! Whoppa!

MOJO Yogis out there - you will have a gorgeous spring sequence to look forward to - one that your spine will fall in LOVE with...